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World War I
William Jennings Bryan resigns as U.S. secretary of state, 1915

World War II
The Red Army invades Karelian Isthmus in Finland, 1944

1190 Frederick Barbarossa drowns in a river while leading an army of the Third Crusade.

1692 Bridget Bishop is hanged in Salem, Mass., for witchcraft.

1776 The Continental Congress appoints a committee to write a Declaration of Independence.

1801 Tripoli declares war on the U.S. for refusing to pay tribute.

1854 The U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, holds its first graduation.

1861 Dorothea Dix is appointed superintendent of female nurses for the Union army.

1864 At the Battle of Brice's Crossroads in Mississippi, Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest defeats the numerically superior Union troops.

1898 U.S. Marines land in Cuba.

1905 Japan and Russia agree to peace talks brokered by President Theodore Roosevelt.

1909 An SOS signal is transmitted for the first time in an emergency when the Cunard liner SS Slavonia is wrecked off the Azores.

1916 Mecca, under control of the Turks, falls to the Arabs during the Great Arab Revolt.

1920 The Republican convention in Chicago endorses woman suffrage.

1924 The Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti is kidnapped and assassinated by Fascists in Rome.

1925 Tennessee adopts a new biology text book denying the theory of evolution.

1940 The Norwegian army capitulates to the Germans.

1942 Germany razes the town of Lidice, Czechoslovakia and kills more than 1,300 citizens in retribution of the murder of Reinhard Heydrich.

1943 The Allies begin bombing Germany around the clock.

1944 The U.S. VII and V corps, advancing from Normandy's beaches, link up and begin moving inland.

1948 The news that the sound barrier has been broken is finally released to the public by the U.S. Air Force. Chuck Yeager, piloting the rocket airplane X-1, exceeded the speed of sound on October 14, 1947.

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyesAnd clever in their own sight! Isaiah 5:20-21 NASB